Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-05

fnsincere and Corrupt.

Slnce the last annual dinner OF the New
England Society, 1t has become the cor.
rect thing for the patriot with "a message
to the nation" to give utterance to it
upon some similar occasion. Gov
Foraker was heard from on Washington g
birthday at the banquet or the New York
Club, and his message was received with
many manifestations of approval by the
Republicans. In Cincinnati, the other
night, ex-Gov. Hoadly, who has now
made his home in New York, was heard
from at the banquet OF the OHIO Club. 1t
is not probable that mis- message will pro-
woke even single manifestation OF ap-
proval from the Republicans, because 1T
was satircal, but none the less vigor-
GUS, attack on their party.
Imagining himself to be a Republican,
the Ex-Governor delivered what he said
ought to have been Gov. Foraker's mess
age at the banquet OF the New York Club.
The Republicans, he declared, emanci-
pated and enfranchised the slave; and
then, for fear he should be too proud in
his new station, they organized the
Freedman's Bank and stole all his prop
erty. They organized the great railroad
corporations that linked the East
to the West; but they organized
them so badly that the whole
Investment Of the government would have
been stolen il it had not been for the
Democrats. They were friends of the
poor, and provided that any man who
should 90 upon the public domain could,
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vatIon. become the owner OF 100 acres;
and then they gave the public domain TO
the railroad corporations, so that the
homestead law was fruitless. They or
ganized great navy at great expense,
but they allowed it to go to rot and ruin,
so that what little there was left
of 1.-THE TaIlapoosa-was sunk
by collision with canal boat. They set
in motion the magnificent railway mail
service and organized the star routes, and
then they stole all the money the Post Of
fee Department mad to spare. They
passed the civil service reform bill, which
provided that Il man should be appoint
ed TO office who was incompetent. but they
Immediately began to abuse President
Cleveland for enforcing the law.
The Ex-Governor concluded his mes
sage by declaring that the Republican
party was a lamentable failure. 1t had,
by it's acts. repudiated whatever good
principles 1t once had, so decidedly, that
its great men, who had been nurtured
and who had grown strong in it, had
either TO join the Democratic party or die.
There was no other choice for them.
Seward, Sumner. Chase, Greeley and
Julian were all driven from the Republi-
can party into the ranks of the Demo-
cracy.
To what the Ex-Governor said may be
added that when President Cleveland
was elected very large number OF men,
who could no longer fraternize with the
corrupt men who were controlling the
Republican party, voted for him. They,
in common with many who were just be-
ginning to enjoy the right to vote, turned
to the Democracy for relief. Since Presi-
dent Cleveland's inauguration, there has
been no improvement in the Republican
party. Its representatives in Congress
have repeatedly thrown themselves In
made palmer than ever their insincerity
and unfitness to control the government.
Outside Of Congress, the state of affairs
in the party has been no better. An at
tempt has been made-indeed, it con-
tinues to be made-to push Blaine to the
front as the party's candidate for the
Presidency, Notwithstanding the charges
against him, which cast doubt upon his
integrity, and the fact that the country
has once repudiated him. In Congress
and out attempts have been made TO re-
vive sectional prejudice, either by wav-
ing the bloody shirt, or by other means as
partisan ana as reprehensible. The
country cannot afford to allow such a
party to regain control. The country
wants good government, and it knows it
cannot have it with the Republican party
in power.